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Glen Park, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Calumet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46409. The Survey maps it on the Gary quadrangle.

Glen Park within Lake County

On record in Glen Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Glen Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,568 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning15
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTENNESSEE
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance53 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMANY
16 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreLIBERTY
9 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNEW HIRE
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTENNESSEE
27 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreGARY WORKS FIRE
20 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreJUANITA
18 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTANNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Park in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGlen Park$5,000A tractor trailer was blown over on Interstate 65, just south of 61st Avenue. A highway sign along Interstate 65 was also blown down.
June 2020HailGlen Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ross2.3 miles20
Liverpool2.3 miles20
Lottaville3.0 miles20
Turkey Creek Meadows3.2 miles14
New Chicago3.5 miles20
Black Oak3.5 miles20
Gary3.6 miles20
Tolleston3.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 435106. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.